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Published Weekly by the University of Iu^'nois 




Vol. XIV AUGUST 27, 1917 ' • No. 52 




[Entered as second-class matter December 11, 191 2, at the post office at Urbana, Illinois, 
under the Act of August 24, 1912] 



RESPONSE OF THE 

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 

TO THE 

CALL OF WAR 




AVIATORS IN TRAINING 

AT 

THE SCHOOL OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS 



Will the Kaiser look with scorn when these men invade the air above him? 



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)AN 2+ 1918 



RESPONSE 

OF 

THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 

TO 

THE CALL OF WAR 

How well an individual or an institution can respond to an 
emergency call like that of war depends in great measure upon the 
preparations made. 

EARLY PREPARATION BY THE UNIVERSITY. Ever 
since its esta!blishment in 1867 the University of Illinois has been one 
of the Land Grant Institutions that has endeavored to give instruction 
in military science and tactics in accordance with the letter of the 
Federal law and the spirit of the founders. In consequence of this 
policy consistently followed the military department had grown by 1916 
into an organization of considerable size. •. 

THE ESTABLISHMENT enrolled by this time a total of 
2279 men, consisting of two regiments of infantry (twelve companies 
each), a full battery of artillery, a signal company, an engineer com- 
pany, a hospital company, two bands, a trumpet and drum corps, and a 
reserve band. In 191 5 there was organized among the faculty and 
students a Battery which was one of the six batteries of the First 
Regiment of the Illinois Field Artillery. During the summer of 191 6 
this Battery ("F") spent several months acquiring valuable training 
and experience on the Mexican border. 

In 1 916 there was some reorganization and additions due to the 
passing of the National Defense Act of June 3. Certain units of the 
Reserve Ofificers' Training Corps were organized. 

Beginning in the autumn of 1916 there was assigned to the 
University by the War Department five commissioned officers and 
three non-commissioned officers from the active list and four retired 
non-commissioned officers. Previous to this only one officer from the 
United States Army had been assigned though the need for additional 
officers for the proper training of the University cadets had been urged 
frequently by the President of the University upon the United States 
War Department. 

Expenditures on account of the military had greatly increased 



by this period. During the two years ending March 31, 1915, $227,- 
918.87 was expended upon a new armory (floor space 200 x 400) to 
complete which it will require about $250,000.00 more. For inci- 
dental expenses, military scholarships, for the Armory and other build- 
ings to be used by the military an amount about equal to the original 
Federal Grant ($600,000) to the University has been spent by the 
State to build up the military department of its University. 

RECENT PREPARATION. With the rise of the war-cloud 
aibove the horizon in Alarch 1917 other preparation was begun. A 
branch of the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau was organized with 
Assistant Dean H. W. Miller of the College of Engineering serving 
as director or adjutant. 

On March 23, 191 7, the Board of Trustees on the recommenda- 
tion of President James set aside sufficient money to print the desired 
blanks, mail them to all students and alumni and make the necessary 
permanent records. On March 24, fifteen thousand letters and inform- 
ation blanks were sent to the alumni and students of the University of 
Illinois. On the information blank which was to he checked by the 
alumnus and returned there were listed services under 102 general 
heads. .A permanent record card was prepared and a special punch 
constructed to punch the card in a manner somewhat similar to the 
scheme used by the Census Bureau. To date approximately 4,500 
replies have been received from the 15,000 students and alumni and all 
of these replies have been reduced to permanent record cards. 

By the punch card scheme it is now possible to go through all of 
the record cards in five minutes or less and find all of the men qualified 
for any given occupation. To date the Bureau has answered calls for 
more than two hundred men. On June 6-9 it made up three ambulance 
units of thirty-six men each in response to the call from the War De- 
partment. These men left for Allentown, Pennsylvania, on June 28, 
1917, where they will remain for three months and will then be sent 
to France. Calls are being answered every day for men for chemical 
laboratories, topographic service, inspection work for the Ordnance 
Department, and so forth. 

The P.ureau has a central office in the Munsey Building in Wash- 
ington, D. C. This office is under the direction of William McClellan, 
with Mr. James L. Phillips as first secretary. Practically all of the men 
who are working in this office are doing so without pay. These volun- 
teer secretaries were sent from the various universities. The repre- 
sentative from ihe Cniversitv of Illinois is '\\v. Edward B. Haves. 



Previous to this the University authorities foresaw the coming 
paramount importance of Aeronautics and appointed a professor to 
give instruction to the students in this wholly new line of science. ■ ' 

OFFER OF RESOURCES. Early in February when it 
seemed inevitable that the United States would be drawn into the war, 
President Edmund J. James of the University sent the following 
telegram : • , 

To His Excellency 
Honorable Frank O. Lowden 
Governor of the State of Illinois 

"In the name of the trustees and faculty of the Uni- 
versity of Illinois, I beg to tender to you, and through you 
to the^ President of the United States, in case of war, the 
facilities of the scientific and technical laboratories of the 
University of Illinois, as an aid in solving such problems as 
the federal government may assign to us." 

EDMUND J. JAMES. 




BARRACKS FOE THE AVIATORS— Y. M 



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This telegram was communicated to the President of the United 
States who repHed as follows : 

"THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington. February lo, 1917 

My dear Governor : 

May I not thank you cordially for your letter of February 7th? 
I am very much gratified by the generous action of the University of 
Illinois. Please be good enough to convey to Dr. James an expression 
of my hearty appreciation of his offer. 

Cordially and sincerely yours, 

(signed) Woodrow Wilson. 

Hon. Frank O. Lowden, 

Governor of Illinois, 

Springfield, Illinois." 

When war was actually begun the President of the University 
in a statement to the faculty and students urged among other things 
the following : 

Friends : 

In the great crisis which now confronts our beloved 
country two things are very apparent : 

First, the nation expects every member of the Uni- 
versity of Illinois to do his "bit" ; 

Second, every member of the University is anxious to 
respond to this expectation. 

It does not yet appear, however, just what he can do or 
where, or when he can best do his part. 

I hope it will become clearer in the course of a few 
days. 

One thing is fairly evident. Men and women will be 
wanted for many dift'erent purposes. University men and 
women should be distinctly more available for a variety of 
positions and work than the average run of the commvmity. 

For the present, students and members of the faculty 
alike can do their best service by giving their utmost energy 
to their college work so that in any case they can come as 
near as possible to completing the work of the academic 
year in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. 

SERVICES RENDERED. The National Government took 
the University President at his word and soon began to call on the 
University for service. The Ordnance and Quartermaster's depart- 



ments needed trained men. To supply this need, special courses in 
business organization and operation were conducted during the period 
from April 23 to June 28 to prepare students for the ordnance enlisted 
reserve corps and for the quartermaster's enlisted reserve corps. About 
one hundred and twenty students enrolled for these courses, the ma- 
jority of whom were promptly enlisted in the Federal service upon the 
completion of the work. 

During the same period courses in Red Cross work were given 
at the University for which college credit was granted. One hundred 
and forty students completed the courses. The work was conducted 
by a registered Red Cross nures, by memhers of the faculty and by 
practicing physicians. It included instruction in first aid, surgical sup- 
plies, home nursing, field proiblems and dietetics. 

One of the most important services now being contributed by 
the University for the conduct of the war is the preparation in its lab- 
oratories of certain chemicals which are indispensable for the manu- 
facture of munitions, nickel steels for projectiles, etc., and which — in 
some instances at least — can not be procured from other sources. Not- 
ably among these chemicals of which there is a shortage is dimethyl- 
gloxime which is now being supplied from the University of Illinois 
laboratories in sufficient quantities to meet all demands of the whole 
country. 

Dr. Roger Adams of the division of Organic Chemistry with a 
group of graduate students is engaged in preparing other chemicals 
as well — some seventy-five in number — that are being sold to as many 
as fifteen different university laboratories, to the Bureau of Chemistry 
at Washington, and to large distributing houses and commercial firms. 

Since June 30, three aditional am'bulance units, one hundred 
and eight men in all, recruited from Illinois Alumni and students, have 
left the University for Allentown, Pa. to go into an army train- 
ing camp prior to their departure for "Somewhere in France". Enhst- 
ment^ in the ordnance and quartermasters reserve corps number about 
seventy. 

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OTHER PERSONAL SERVICES. .A'lany faculty members 
have tendered their services to>-t-he State and National Governments 
in various capacities. President Edmund J. James is chairman of a 
committee formed May 21 to consider ways in which the state universi- 
ties .may cooperate with the Federal Government in its conduct of 
the war. 

Seventeen members of the faculty are imparting instruction to 
220 aviators in the School of ]\Iilitary Aeronautics. 

On the Avoman's committee of the national council of defense 
are : Aliss Isabel Bevier, head of the household science department 
of the University; Mrs. Henry M. Dunlap, (76) of Savoy; two mem- 
bers -of the board of trustees, Mrs. J\Iary Busey of Urbana, and ]\Irs. 
Laura B. Evans of Taylorville. 

Some have enlisted in the officers' reserve corps or other 
branches and will soon see service at the front. Others are serving on 
committees, and acting in advisory capacities for National and State 
Governments, aiding in war relief or doing their "bit" in some other line 
as important and vital, perhaps, as these mentioned. ■ 

FOOD CONSERVATION. The Extension Division of the 
Household Science Department is organized for a food conservation 
campaign. During the current year this Division has served twenty- 
one types of organization throughout the state, reaching through them 
more than 70,000 housekeepers. The cooperation of all these organiza- 
tions is now being enlisted and the cooperation of the local press has 
been secured in this service which is concerned primarily with the con- 
servation and utilization of foods, food materials, and textiles. 

This campaign will be carried forward under close cooperation 
with the agricultural extension work of the state. 

SCHOOL OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS. On April 30, 
191 7, in response to a call from the War Department the University of 
Illinois agreed to establish a school of IMilitary Aeronautics, which will 
likely continue throughout the period of the war. This school was to be 
established with an officer of the regular army detailed as Commandant, 
and a technical staff made up under the direction of the University. 
The ftien who are instructed in this School of Aeronautics are enlisted 
in the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps, and are sent here on orders from 
Washhigton. They come at approximately the rate of twenty-five men 
per week and remain eight weeks. The number of men on hand at the 
present time is approximately 220. 




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The entire large armory is being used at the present time for 
instruction. The building belonging to the Young Men's Christian As- 
sociation has been leased by the University and turned over to be used 
as barracks by the School of Military Aeronautics. The dining room 
facilities in the basement of the building have been increased to accom- 
modate two hundred fifty men. In addition the new Woman's 
Residence Hall which is just 'being completed has been turned over 
by the Board of Trustees of the University for use of the Aviators 
as barracks. Instruction is being given to the men on Military 
Drill, Army Regulations, Theory of Flight, Cross Country and 
General Flying, Telegraphy, Construction and Operation of Aircraft 
Engines, Construction of Airplanes, Artillery .Observation, Construc- 
tion and Operation of Machine Guns, Meteorology, Astronomy, Re- 
connaissance, Map Reading, Contact Patrol, Bombs, Motor Transpor- 
tation, and so forth. The men are under rigid military discipline at all 
times and because of the extreme requirements of the service no lax- 
ness is permitted. 

Captain G. W. Krapf of the regular army. Aviation Service, has 
'been detailed by the War Department to act as Commandant. Assist- 
ant Dean H. W. Miller of the College of Engineering, Captain in Ord- 
nance Department, has been assigned by the University as President of 
the Academic Board in charge of the technical instruction. At the 
present time seventeen instructors from the College of Engineering are 
giving the technical instruction. It is expected that by the first of Sept- 
ember a permanent staff of twenty-two men will have been made up. 

The School received its first men on May 20, and graduated its 
first class on July 14. The men who are sent here come from all parts 
of the United States. Part of the first graduating class was sent to Ran- 
toul, Illinois, and others to Fort Wood, New York. It is very probable 
that in a comparatively short time the capacity of the school will be 
increased to accommodate 400 to 500 men, graduating approximately 
50 per week. The staff of the School has had to prepare the notes used 
by the men, and on July 13 the first bound copies of these notes con- 
taining approximately 500 pages were available for use. Until that 
time the notes were simply given out from time to time as they were 
prepared and had to be used. The men who are sent here are of the 
very highest caliber. The physical examination is very rigid and the 
men seem to realize the responsibilities that they are expected to carry. 

ENGINEERS FOR CANTONMENT CONSTRUCTION. 
In response to a call recently received from the Federal Government 




NEW WOMAN'S RESIDENCE HALL 
Turned for the use of the Aviators 



the University secured for cantonment construction work twenty grad- 
uates of the College of Engineering. These men are enlisted in the 
National Guard and have now been detailed temporarily for this special 
service. Thus the government through the aid of the University is 
enabled to make the very best possible use of the expert training of its 
enlisted men. 

' DEVELOPMENT OF AERONAUTICAL DEVICES FOR 

U. S. NAVY. In response to an offer made the Navy by the shop lab- 
oratories of the Mechanical Engineering Department, the Navy asked 
the laboratories to design and develop an instrument capable of meas- 
uring the tension in kite baloon cables. These kite baloons have sprung 
into great importance during the war and have brought about special 
(methods of operations. It is found that it is difficult to estimate 
whether cables holding these baloons to the ground are under great or 
little tension; hence the desirability of an instrument which can be 
applied to the cable and show at a glance the tension in it. 

Such an instrument was designed by the instructor in aeronaut- 
ics from photographs roughly illustrating similar devices used abroad ; 
and the sample has been built, calibrated and shipped to the Navy de- 
partment for trial. It is understood that the manufacture of these in- 
struments for further use by the Government will be done in the shop 
laboratories which are Avell equipped for various sorts of work and are 
capable of employing one hundred fifty mechanics. 

WAR RELIEF. Early in the war a call came for aid to the 
Belgian suft'erers in England. In response the University in a short, 
vigorous campaign secured a carload of clothing, consisting of 50 boxes 
with 5,000 pieces of serviceable winter wear for men, women, and 
children, and $1,500 in cash. 

In addition to this individuals, committees, and various organ- 
izations composed partly or entirely of faculty people' have done much 
in securing relief for the Belgians, for the Red Cross, and for other 
purposes. 

Since last April three distinct campaigns for war relief have 
been conducted in the University. 

Early in April a special canvass was made in the University 
Community for the Belgian Children's Relief Fund. As a result of 
that campaign a -total of $13,625.02 was raised. The general committee 
having this campaign in charge started out to raise $6,900.00 to care for 



the children of Muysen, Belgium. They accomplished much more — 
fortunately for other Belgian children. 

Early in the summer, a special campaign was made to secure 
funds for the University Ambulance unit that was already in France. 
As a result of this effort about $10,000.00 was secured for this cause. 

During July a committee on Armenian and Syrian Relief by 
means of a garden party and direct collections raised $500.00 that was 
sent to the central committee in New York. The committee at the 
University is a continuing organization and plans to send other aid 
from time to time. 

EDUCATIONAL WORK. Lectures on many phases of the 
War have been given- during the summer session by members of the fac- 
ulty from the department of Political Science, from the History Depart- 
ment, and others. A series of ten lectures by members of the faculty 
were arranged by request of Mr. Herbert C. Hoover on the conserva- 
tion of food and textile material. Five of these have already been de- 
livered. Faculty people are called on constantly for addresses to public 
meetings throughout the state and for expert advice on many subjects. 

WORK FOR THE COMING YEAR. The University will 
open as usual in September, 191 7 and carry forward the many lines of 
work that it has been accustomed to do with as little change as circum- 
stances will permit. The University believes it is extremely important 
that during these trying times the educational interests of the country 
be not neglected. It urges students who are not actually needed in the 
armed or unarmed forces fighting the Nation's battles to return to their 
college or university courses. If war continues the nation will be better 
served if it has available the largest possible body of trained men and 
women. 



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